diff --git a/pgjdbc/pom.xml b/pgjdbc/pom.xml
index 20f631e5c3..e916068354 100644
--- a/pgjdbc/pom.xml
+++ b/pgjdbc/pom.xml
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@
             <dependency>
               <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
               <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-              <version>6.13</version>
+              <version>8.29</version>
             </dependency>
           </dependencies>
           <configuration>